About us
Built by people who know fabrication
Tempus Tools comes from more than 100 years of combined experience in laser cutting and fabrication.
We’ve run job shops, worked with quoting software, built software for the industry, and spent years talking with the people using it every day.
That experience shapes everything we build, from how quickly you can get set up to how easily you can turn a customer drawing into a quote.
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100+ years behind every quote
Laser cutting
Firsthand experience inside laser cutting businesses.
Software
Developed specifically to make complicated quoting work easier to handle.
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Fabrication
Built around the realities of quoting and running a shop.
Why we built Tempus Tools
Tempus is Latin for time, and our name reflects our original idea: practical tools that help fabrication shops save time. That is how the product began, as a box of time-saving tools for job shops, and it grew into the quoting application it is today.
It came out of years spent running laser cutting job shops and working with all sorts of software for the manufacturing industry. The team had seen the same problems come up again and again: messy drawings that need interpreting, prices that need to be right and repeatable, and customers who want an answer the same day. Tempus Tools is the modern, easier answer to all of it.
Ready for a changing industry
Laser cutting used to sit mainly with specialist larger shops running multiple machines. For many fabricators, they dealt with it as an outsourced service. As machines became more affordable, more fabricators brought cutting in-house, including smaller teams doing it for the first time.
That creates opportunity, but also new commercial pressure. The machine cost is only part of the picture. Space, gas, labour, storage, consumables, and other running costs all affect what a job really costs.
Tempus Tools helps those shops handle the quoting side more confidently, with a clearer way to price work and understand what they are charging for.
What we believe
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A job shop is full of complexity. Our job is to handle that complexity behind the scenes and give you something simple to use, with the hard calculations happening where you never have to see them.
Get the quote out faster
The heart of the product is turning a drawing into an accurate price, fast. Whether that’s allowing your customers and AI agents to self-serve through your website, or ensuring requests that come in the morning go back out in the afternoon, rather than sitting on a desk for three days.
Built around real shop workflows
We build practical software for fabrication businesses. It should make sense the first time you open it, whether you are quoting your first job or your thousandth.
More than software
Ask our customers what they value most, and many of them talk about the support before anything else. We answer quickly, and when an issue comes up, we jump on it quickly.
That support often turns into something more useful: a straight conversation about pricing. Plenty of shops are not sure what their hourly rate should be, or feel pushed into a race to the bottom. We are not a consulting firm, but helping shops understand what their work is worth is part of the service.
Who we build for
Built for shops that want quoting to move faster
See how Tempus Tools helps laser cutting and fabrication teams turn customer drawings into faster, more consistent quotes.
